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Connor Mortell

Connor Mortell received his BBA in finance from Texas Christian University and his MBA from Florida State University. Connor worked as a legislative aide in the Florida House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021 and then spent two years working as a teacher, initially teaching kindergarten and first grade, later teaching middle and high school. Connor was a 2023 summer fellow in residence at the Mises Institute and is currently a PhD student at Texas Tech University.

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Can the American Government Wage a Just War?

Big GovernmentCronyism and CorporatismLawWar and Foreign Policy

11/08/2023Mises Media
Murray Rothbard asked this question and concluded that the current American regime, if the wisdom of Aquinas’ words is taken seriously, cannot wage a just war.
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And Then They Came for Bart Simpson

Big GovernmentMedia and Culture
11/08/2023Power & Market

In 1994, Murray Rothbard released what was, in my opinion, one of his best articles of all time: Tobacco Smokers: America’s Most Persecuted Minority. A serious read of it shows that his concern is not...

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Can the American Government Wage a Just War?

Big GovernmentCronyism and CorporatismLawWar and Foreign Policy

Blog10/23/2023

Murray Rothbard asked this question and concluded that the current American regime, if the wisdom of Aquinas’ words is taken seriously, cannot wage a just war.

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What Mises Really Thought about Fascism

PoliticsThe Police StateWorld History

09/12/2023Mises Media
When Mises wrote that the fascists had "saved European civilization," he could have been describing Francisco Franco of Spain, who kept Spain from becoming a communist dictatorship.
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Not Even a Pencil Could Exist without Fossil Fuels

Economic FreedomEconomic PolicyThe EnvironmentMedia and Culture

08/27/2023Mises Media
Leonard Read's famous "I, Pencil" explained the workings of the market in terms of the creation of a simple pencil. However, we should not forget that the reviled fossil fuels are involved at every turn.
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